Cold War Thinking and Cold War Actions

Obama recently accused Putin of returning to cold war thinking. I think it is much more than Cold War thinking. I think Putin has returned to cold war actions. Otherwise he wouldn't be creating a humanitarian crisis in Syria that has already displaced millions of people and will inevitably create more people being displaced and killed by Christmastime.

The U.S. in response likely has been horror at the worst "Cold War type" nightmare in Syria directly caused by the stance of both Russia and Iran with China's quiet but tacit approval of Russia's and Iran's Cold War behavior. This has been called by many the "Worst Humanitarian Crisis since the Cold War ended around 1990."

The reason I say "Cold War behavior" is because of the amounts of people affected. It reminds one of similar problems in Viet Nam, in Afghanistan in the early 1980s when Osama bin Laden rose to prominence as a Mujahadeen in Afghanistan fighting the Soviets there then. So, Syria is another Afghanistan like the Soviets experienced potentially for Russia this time as well. The millions of displaced and now 100,000 dead people (more dying every day) are directly caused by Russia and Iran's positions and military involved both directly and indirectly in this situation.

Also, the main reason the U.S. and Great Britain have stayed out pretty much of this conflict is they don't want to create a further escalation of this 2nd Cold War any further to where there might be no choice but to use nuclear weapons once again like the problem became from the 1940s until about 1990.

The U.S. and Great Britain and France and even Germany don't want another nuclear confrontation to escalate out of control like the Cuban Missile Crisis did between Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy did in 1962.
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Cuban missile crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_missile_crisis‎

The Cuban missile crisis — known as the October crisis in Cuba and the Caribbean crisis (Russian: Kарибский кризис, tr. Karibskiy krizis) in the former USSR ...

‎Moscow–Washington hotline - ‎Cuban Project - ‎PGM-19 Jupiter - ‎Ilyushin Il-28

Cuban Missile Crisis - John F. Kennedy Library and Museum

www.jfklibrary.org › JFK › JFK in History‎

For thirteen days in October 1962 the world waited—seemingly on the brink of nuclear war—and hoped for a peaceful resolution to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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So, because of this millions of Syrians likely will be displaced over the next few years until some kind of stabilization happens in the region. The problem with this in addition to the harm it is doing to millions of Syrians is that it is also harming neighboring countries as well, especially Jordan and Lebanon. Because of Hezbollah actions in Syria, a new civil war is likely in Lebanon as a direct result. The problem for Jordan is that it has only 6 million people to begin with and the number of refugees coming to Jordan from Syria are too many and too expensive for Jordan to handle alone as a country. 

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Nikita Khrushchev
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Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier. end quote from wikipedia.

So, in looking at this likely Khrushchev was removed from power in 1964 the next year after Kennedy was Assassinated because he was either suspected of having something to do with this assassination or accused of bringing the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation by his colleagues or both.